I am one of the 0.05% on Debian. I feel special.
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2025
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Same
More like 2.nice%
Debian, stable as usual.
debian is bestian
This is great news. Gives me hope that one day, I'll be able to play all of my games on Linux.
Yay!
🙋🏼♂️ new to Linux gaming.
Same. Sadly I did not have my new baby during the last hardware survey.
"There's dozens of us! Dozens!"
Phone is Android, PC is now Linux Mint, for gaming I use a Steam deck, and my NAS is now TrueNAS.
I love to see it.
Each time I see posts like this, I hope to see adobe announce they are making linux versions of their software. Whether you like it or not, a lot of people do not switch because of adobe.
Can't you run it through Proton or Wine tricks at this point?
Nope, it will install but then say dlls are missing even though they are there.
Man, if only Linux would be adopted by the masses for gaming...
Android uses the Linux kernel but none of the familiar "Linux" stack: GNU, X or Wayland, GTK or Qt, GNOME or KDE or other DEs, PulseAudio or PipeWire, APT or YUM or other package managers, and many others that define the Linux experience. Google could replace the Linux kernel with something else tomorrow without touching the rest of Android and most users won't tell, and many apps will run as-is.
Google tried that once, they developed Fuchsia with the intention of replacing Android and ChromeOS and realized the investment to develop a replacement is not worth it and decided to layoff all the secondary development team to find the budget for the AI people that they pay to not work in competitors.
Hoping for the AI bubble to burst any time now. I'm fucking tired of the management stuffing AI everywhere. Heck even the CEO now outsources Slack replies from ChatGPT.
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God I wish someone would port AHK to linux. I literally depend on it to make software accessible.
I wonder if it works on WINE i never tried it
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Huh. The Year of the Linux Handheld.
The Year of the Linux Handheld on the Desktop
Nearly a third are coming from the Steam Deck and other Steam OS handhelds. Impressive.
I've not heard of CachyOS, but to capture 2.54% of the steam linux market feels significant. It jumped right past other established Arch-based distros like Endeavor and Manjaro.
A lot of gamers want better performance, so a performance oriented distro with gaming quality of life features fills that gap. And ultimately there are a lot of YouTube channels promoting it and it kind of turned into a cool distro to use. This might explain the phenomenon.
Is Nobara still a thing? That was the gaming distro a couple years back, last I checked.
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Doing my part
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